by Kevin Burton The USA Legends scored six in the top of the first, then held on to beat Bayou City 11-10 Friday. The win earned the team 11th place in the 2021 National Beep Baseball Association World Series. The grand experiment in AARP beepball netted four wins and four losses against younger …
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Legends Fade Under The Wichita Heat
by Kevin Burton The following is not a Page 7 exclusive by any means, everybody knows it: in the sports world, Father Time is still undefeated. It is true in all sports, even baseball for the blind. Father Time administers a butt kicking even more consistently than the Indy Thunder. To …
3-1 Legends Face World Champion Thunder
by Kevin Burton The USA Legends ran their record to 3-1 at the 2021 Beep Baseball World Series with an 11-3 win over the Philadelphia Fire Wednesday. Leadoff batter Marvin Morgan continued his hot hitting with four runs in five at-bats to set the tone. The Legends have exceeded expectations thus far, …
Legends Win Twice, Play Philly Fire Next
by Kevin Burton My USA Legends got the game they needed to get Tuesday at the Beep Baseball World Series in Wichita. And I survived five hours of baseball after five years off. Game one of our tripleheader was a 4-3 win over Tyler. The Legends came back from a 3-1 deficit, …
From Moth Balls Back To Ground Balls
by Kevin Burton Since when does a single beep baseball practice merit a blog post? Since it’s the first one I’ve had since the Obama administration. It has been a while folks. My Columbus friends invited me to join this team of extremely well-seasoned veteran players for a last beep baseball hurrah. …
True History of Mankind From The Bible
by Kevin Burton It’s back to the classroom today at the Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind (ESSB), the school we need as humans because of our sin nature. This is a sixth-period history class. We cover, quickly, the essential details of the history of mankind, with God as the Creator. There …
USA Legends Will Honor The Game
by Kevin Burton Last week I got and filled a trophy case. Next week, my play will probably not add any hardware to it. But you never know. You never know. That’s why the games are played on green grass under a blue sky, not on a computer. That’s why old men …
Prayer Needed For Tough Family Decisions
by Kevin Burton I went literary on you last Friday. Hope that was OK. I wrote about my mother moving to an assisted living facility and the parallels for that move and my move to the Ohio State School for the Blind as a fourth grader in 1972 (“Love, Tears And Doing The …
You Feel That Longing For A Reason
by Kevin Burton In the title track from her 1994 album “Longing In Their Hearts” Bonnie Raitt speaks eloquently about spiritual blindness. Really, Bonnie Raitt? Yep. That’s why we have called a special assembly here at the Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind to discuss the song and hear it twice, …
Love, Tears And Doing The Right Thing
by Kevin Burton This is a story about a boy and his mother. The mother has thought things through. She will push through the pain. She is doing the right thing. She is resolute. The big house on the corner? The boy will be leaving that now. He will be back on …
